Time Warp Challenge: They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To!

It's true, they don't make toys like they used to! I remember so many fantastic toys that don't exist any more. Sally Secret, Yak Back, Brain Warp, Troll Dolls, Floam, and Creepy Crawlers. Yes, some of these toys were potentially dangerous, and yes, some were extremely messy, and now all I can think is that my parents loved me very much to get me toys that could kill me/destroy our house.
But the toy that I miss the most is one that actually still exists, just not the way it used to.
Polly Pockets were the coolest, and most frustrating toy I ever owned. Tiny dolls that could get lost in second, and were almost impossible to stand up in their tiny circular spots.
I LOVED Polly Pocket, her perfect blond hair, her magical playgrounds with spinning pieces, and her pastel colored houses.

 Check out this old commercial for Polly Pocket. I had the Stamping School, and my sister had the Ballerina Stage.

The Polly pockets they make now aren't the adorable little girl dolls from my childhood, but more like miniature barbie dolls.

So I decided that I HAD to do a Polly Pocket manicure for this challenge. The only question was, how?

I settled for painting my nails a purple-pink shade, and putting gold heart on the nails, with Polly Pockets on the thumbs and ring fingers.

Super tiny, but I think it's cure.

So, yeah, kind of adorable, and it totally makes me want to start playing with them again.

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Time Warp Challenge: We can do it!

The theme today is important women in history, women who changed the world.
I love this theme, because that's what I've always wanted: to change the world.
Preferably for the better...
But all my life, I have felt so small, and wondered when it would happen, when my life would impact others enough for me to say "I've changed the world!"
In the middle of me complaining about not having changed the world, I discovered that the best way to change the world was to change my world. And the best way to do that was to love.
To love with a fierce and blind love, and then no moment of my life would be wasted.

I have chosen as my inspiration a women who changed the world with her love, someone who I have admired for years: Mother Teresa.

I kept the design very simple, and based it off the habit that the nuns of Mother Teresa's order wear. I used NYC Colors white, L.A Colors royal blue, and a thin coat of O.P.I. "Makes Men Blush" over the white to give it a smooth, almost antique finish. I put a NYC Colors top coat over everything.

Every time I look at my hands I will remember that love is the best way to change the world.

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Time Warp Challenge: Lights, Camera, ACTION!

For this challenge, we were supposed to choose a nostalgic piece of film or literature to base on manicure on. I wasn't sure it the movie or book was supposed to be nostaglic, or if we were nostaglic about the film or book.

So I choose one of my favorite movies, which luckily, fits both criteria.
"Singing in the Rain" is a movie made in the 1950's about the change from silent films to "talkies" in the 1930's.
It is also my favorite musical of all time, even beating out "White Christmas." (At least until I see "White Christmas" again, in which case it will be my all-time favorite.)
I know a few other bloggers chose this movie as well, and I struggled to come up with what I thought I should do ( a literal interpretation, using umbrellas and music notes) or what I wanted to do (an all out green mani covered with green rhinestone, like the dress Cyd Charisse wore in the "Broadway Melody" segment).

Finally, I decided to just do what I wanted, and painted my nails a bright umbrella yellow, with green french tips and rhinestones.

If no one else gets it, that's ok, 'cause it made me really happy.

An everyone kept asking me what party I was going to.
So, a good reaction. :) 

Check out these lovely manis from the other Let\'s Do The Time Warp Challenge Participants!

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